Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe

Book 40 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year – I will probably make 40 my default goal for next year! My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. Decided to try something just a little bit different for my 40th book of the year — a sapphic dark academia horror-romance! In particular, I read Lethal Kiss (2026), by Taylor Grothe, just released last month. I’m not one who typically reads romances, and as a straight guy I’m not one who typically reads sapphic romances, but I came across Taylor Grothe on Threads and the premise of the book intrigued me enough to check it out. And I enjoyed the book immensely — it is a fun, dark, and thrilling tale set in the halls of a corrupt academic institution! Marcella is a monster with a human form that has lived for hundreds of years, sustaining herself on the lives of unsuspecting human victims. With all that time to kill, she’s developed and maintained an…

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